OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Phoenix to Cleveland

1,737 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on PHX–CLE arrive on time 77% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate77%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay45 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.3%of scheduled flights

based on 642 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Too close to call — no single carrier is clearly more on-time here.

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time77%
    Medianon time
    p9040 min
    Cancel0.3%
    Flights332
  • American Airlines
    On-time75%
    Medianon time
    p9055 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights158
  • Frontier Airlines
    On-time80%
    Medianon time
    p9030 min
    Cancel0.7%
    Flights152

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline38%
  • Weather1%
  • Air traffic (NAS)10%
  • Late aircraft51%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly PHX → CLE

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

On-time rates are fairly even by time of day on this route — ranging from 70% to 90% on time.

  • Overnights90% on time · p90 10 min · 71 flights · limited
  • Mornings84% on time · p90 25 min · 437 flights
  • Middays80% on time · p90 30 min · 700 flights
  • Afternoons75% on time · p90 45 min · 908 flights
  • Evenings70% on time · p90 90 min · 328 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 73% to 82% on time.

  • Tuesdays82% on time · p90 45 min · 286 flights
  • Wednesdays82% on time · p90 30 min · 303 flights
  • Saturdays79% on time · p90 30 min · 472 flights
  • Thursdays78% on time · p90 50 min · 317 flights
  • Mondays76% on time · p90 60 min · 339 flights
  • Fridays74% on time · p90 55 min · 334 flights
  • Sundays73% on time · p90 40 min · 395 flights
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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.